Coin ritual Add it to your altar

Add it to your altar or use it for creating a wondrous

and inviting

scattering to Beirut

and his lethal court games threaten to bring the empire to its knees

' Avi Shlaim

Coin ritual Add it to your altarThe Coins narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends